1,750 company watched Pharell Williams’s Louis Vuitton debut from the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris. Over 1 billion folks watched on social media.
Over time, the style present has developed from an intimate affair reserved for rich purchasers to a globally recognisable spectacle, impacting tradition and society. Viewers outdoors of the business now have almost-instant entry to those previously-closed off runways by way of manufacturers’ owned social channels, to not point out these of the press, celebrities and influencers in attendance. However what’s the goal of a style present in the present day, and who’s it for?
It is the theme of a brand new immersive exhibition, Vogue: Inventing the Runway, which is able to premiere on 13 November at London’s Lightroom, an immersive expertise venue proper within the shadow of Central Saint Martins, the place lots of the 60 designers featured within the exhibition studied. Tickets, which vary from £15 to £25, are on sale till 26 April 2025.
The spectacles draw on Vogue’s huge archives (which date again to its first publication in 1892) and contributor community, bringing collectively the views of main business voices, with narration from two-time Academy Award-winning actor and producer Cate Blanchett.
